**FIRST EMAIL**/FLL Senior Mentor call: Team Management, August 28

Please share this info with any rookie mentors who may not have yet registered a team (contact me for phone information):

Greetings FLL Teams:

Mark your Calendars! The /FIRST /Senior Mentors are pleased to announce
they will again be hosting the second in a series of important
Teleconference calls for FLL Team Coaches this
Thursday, August 28, at 7 pm EST.

*Coach Orientation, 102: Team Management *provides guidelines for having
fun while:

  • forming, organizing, or shaping a team;
  • building team goals and activities;
  • developing effective communications;
  • setting the table for defining roles and responsibilities.

Coach Orientation, 102 will again be led by Senior Mentors, Sally
Sylvester, FLL veteran coach from Virginia and Steve Cremer, an FLL &
FTC Team coach, from Boston.
FLL Partners, Barbara Gomez, Mexico and Holly Mezera, Minnesota will be
joining in and assisting on this call. In addition to being FLL
Partners, Barbara and Holly are both experienced FLL Coaches.

All team coaches are welcome. The call in number is ****. We
will have 150 lines available, so lines are on a first come, first
served basis. The call will be recorded and available for replay at:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/content.aspx?id=10054.

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We highly recommend that you bring your 2008/2009 FLL Coaches Handbook
with you to this call. If you do not yet have your copy, the first
three chapters can be downloaded at:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/content.aspx?id=788

*/FIRST /Senior Mentor Hotline *
This hotline provides an effective means and opportunity for teams,
coaches, and mentors to direct their questions, and to quickly obtain
information and/or request other assistance from the /FIRST /Senior
Mentors. All correspondence and inquiries should be addressed to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Previous Senior Mentor Teleconferences
Please check out what you may have missed here:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/content.aspx?id=10054

Again, all team coaches & mentors are welcome, especially those attached
to rookie teams.
Please Join Us!

The /FIRST /Senior Mentors

You can download the agenda being used in Thursday’s teleconference on the FIRST website, http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/content.aspx?id=10054. You may find it helpful in taking notes.